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Why did my website suddenly dropped in Google search

I need help figuring out why after several years, suddenly my site:

http://achesawaytoronto.ca

dropped from page 1 to like page 20 in local search for keywords 'massage Toronto'. I'm still showing top 3 in maps. Even some sub pages are ranking higher than my main page.

I've also ranked highly for Osteopathy Toronto, Acupuncture Toronto, posture Toronto and have dropped dramatically for all of those.

It is fairly obvious that I'm being penalized (no manual penalty) but I have no clue why.

Actions I think might be related.

1: I installed yoast seo and submitted a sitemap after several years
2: I had a newly added link on my page pointing to a site that Google suddenly ranked as a spam site (now removed)
3: I expanded recently and added a bunch of new pages to my site.

Thank you,
Faz
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Starting around 4/20, Google started rolling out what appears to be a major update to their algorithm. Here is where they confirmed it:
https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/987397051997663232?s=21

It appears that the update was potentially related to them moving over to the "mobile first" index. Some people have started to get messages about this update through Search Console this week:
https://twitter.com/arifinkels/status/990937911284715520

I doubt the ranking drop you are seeing is related to anything you've done recently. It's likely due to the algorithm update.

How well designed is your site for mobile? When you look in Search console, are your mobile positions better than your desktop?
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Your ranking in mobile search is likely going to begin translating to your ranking on desktop fairly soon.
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Faz Moosa

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Hi Lucas,

Thank you for your response.

I actually found out in the search console that my homepage has been partailly indexed due to a googlemap api being blocked

URLhttps://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js/AuthenticationService.Authenticate?1shttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmaps%2Fembed%3Fpb%3D!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2886.3505877338207!2d-79.38503068457408!3d43.66167797912095!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x882b34b6759843cd%253A0x2b0d724370c9ab95!2sAches%2BAway%2BToronto%2BMassage%2BTherapy!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1524237873041&2sgoogle-maps-embed&callback=_xdc_._k24eq2&token=49130

Type: Script

Reason: Blocked

Severity: Low

robots.txt

I removed a jetpack contact and locations widget that had the blocked api but when I run a page speed analysis - It seems to be still somewhere in the background coding.  Along with a bunch of other 'on page' problems.

I need urgent help to fix these as I've already asked google to re-index and I am not sure it will pass.

Can you help - with the backend stuff to correct these issues or suggest a developer who could help me with this in the next day or two?

Thank you for your help,
Faz

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URL:

achesawaytoronto.ca

Title:

Toronto's choice for Registered Massage Therapy: Aches Away Toronto

Date:

Report run on Tue May 1 06:55:44EDT2018

Diagnosis
Global Statistics
Total HTTP Requests:

38

Total Size:

632468 bytes

Object Size Totals
Object type

Size (bytes)

Download @ 56K (seconds)

Download @ T1 (seconds)

HTML:

99068

20.34

1.12

HTML Images:

10889

2.57

0.46

CSS Images:

134444

29.39

3.31

Total Images:

145333

31.96

3.77

Javascript:

372767

77.89

5.57

CSS:

15300

3.45

0.48

Multimedia:

0

0.00

0.00

Other:

0

0.00

0.00

External Objects
External Object

QTY

Total HTML:

3

Total HTML Images:

2

Total CSS Images:

13

Total Images:

15

Total Scripts:

18

Total CSS imports:

2

Total Frames:

0

Total Iframes:

2

Download Times*
Connection Rate

Download Time

14.4K

497.79 seconds

28.8K

252.70 seconds

33.6K

217.68 seconds

56K

133.65 seconds

ISDN 128K

46.20 seconds

T1 1.44Mbps

10.95 seconds

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URL

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97184

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CSS*

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22861

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CSS

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Main Doc

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Main Doc

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CSS*

Main Doc

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1

3163

SCRIPT

Main Doc

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Main Doc

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Main Doc

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1944

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1

1398

SCRIPT

Main Doc

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Up to 665 bytes could have been saved through compression.  

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1318

CSS IMG

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Main Doc

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CSS*

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SCRIPT

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Main Doc

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Main Doc

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Main Doc

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